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A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren

7/24/2014

I am knocked out!  Listening to the Audible version which she, herself, reads.  Highly recommend.  The timbre of her voice as …

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A Soldier on the Southern Front — Italy, WW I

7/3/2014

World War I brought with it some 10 million combatant deaths, 23 million wounded.  Two and one half million non combatants died from fire and …

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A Jail Break Against the Draft

5/5/2014

On my way down to spend a week in the Mojave desert I queued up Edward Abby‘s Desert Solitaire on …

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Hidden Battles: War Trauma Across Cultures

2/10/2014

Hidden Battles is an accomplished documentary bringing us 5 war participants-as-fighters and the years that have followed them:  Israeli soldier, …

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Post War Trauma — and Love

2/10/2014

Terry Gross interviewed a quite incredible couple today on her Fresh Air show. Kayla Williams and Brian McGough met in …

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The Timid Marine — a WW II Memoir

12/30/2013

Joseph Lanciotti was a fifteen year old, setting pins in the local bowling alley of Lodi, New Jersey on Sunday, …

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The Forge: Spain in the Second Decade of the 20th

10/18/2013

The Forge by Arturo Barea has been on my Read-Next shelf for decades.  I spent a very fruitful year in …

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“Night” by Elie Wiesel — Re-Reading

1/20/2012

I’ve been re-reading Eli Wiesel’s ground breaking,  terrible, memoir,  Night,  this last week, along with a niece in 9th grade, …

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The Devil You Don’t Know: Going Back to Iraq — Zuhair Al-Jezairy

6/9/2011

Iraq is, in the words of Zuhair al-Jezairy in The Devil You Don’t Know, his memoir/reportage of returning  there after 25 …

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